Country size comparison
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Rwanda is about 39 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 2.56% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (9.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
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